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Mother’s Day Flowers Forever

Janet Kuypers, 09/10/06 #1

when I live far away from my mother
you’d think the generic thing to do
for Mother’s Day
is to send her flowers
you know, from flowers dot com, or ftd or something

and I thought
my mother sees flowering plants
all around her house
year round

and flowers die

so I saw silk flowers at the store
in a clear glass vase
with clear epoxy
to look like water
so it looks like the silk flowers
are in water
and they’ll stay perfectly still
in their little vase

so I did this on two years
with both my mother
and my husband’s mother
and now
whenever I got to either house
I always feel good
when I see my flowers
we got them for Mother’s day

you know, because flowers die
and they kept these flowers from us

and now I’m back at my mother’s house
helping clean up
having to sort all of her extra make-up
from bins under the bathroom sink
and being there to help my father
with the collection of the ashes,
the death certificates
trying to keep a few mementos
of my mother
after she passed

and I walk into their master bedroom now
to fix dad’s bed for him
and I see the red flowers
in the epoxy-filled vase
and then I walk out to the porch
and I see the purple and blue flowers
in the epoxy-filled vase
and

and I don’t know, at least
my Mother’s Day flowers lasted

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